Local Market Development & the Waste Streams Resulting from the Lancashire Waste PFI Project Waste PFI Project Sarah Holliday Principal Waste Management Officer Waste Management
Waste PFI Project Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT), In-vessel composting and Material Reclamation Facility (MRF) (MRF) Provided the WDAs the best value maximum diversion model Total integrated services divert 88% of waste away from landfill
Local Market Development Looks at establishing ‘closed loop’ recycling e.g. Lancashire waste to Lancashire product
Context of Work Mutual Benefit LCC /BC GRLOL LMD Programme Objectives Objectives • Diversion • Diversion • Savings • Maximise recyclate values • Products • Revenue • New Business • Operational efficiency • Revenue • Environmental B P Universities Processors Off takers Manufacturers Envirolink / UCLAN Salvtech Severnside Marshalls WRAP /NISP /MMU/Liverpool Longworth Greenstar Queensbury Aquaspersions Glass UK Dacryl Acorn • R&D • Material & Process trials • Improving quality of recyclate • Fabrication tests • Best practice • Material analysis • Performance analysis • Addressing contamination • Implementation trials guidance • Process costing • Developing local markets • Production cost analysis • Funding • Supply chain assessment • Commercialisation
Projects that are in Development • Eureka moments! • Investigating through research & development • Low Grade Mixed Waste Plastic (MWP) Pellet to make • Low Grade Mixed Waste Plastic (MWP) Pellet to make plastic products such as kerbs & posts • Bus Shelters • Paper Products • Mattresses • Paving
MWP Pellet • Pellet has successfully been made from low grade mixed waste plastic. • Using the pellet a prototype kerb has been manufactured • Further 100 kerbs being made including low grade mixed waste plastic/film plastic generated from the Lancashire facilities. • • Other products could be made which could be used by the Authority Other products could be made which could be used by the Authority • Potential for the pellet making aspect to be located close to the Farington Waste Recovery Park • Need to drive offtake deals with GRL for the raw material – GRL could potentially get more income by sending material to energy from waste facilities • Lancashire Business Park does have suitable units soon to become available – Strategic position being clarified
Bus Shelters • Potential cost savings to Authority if Lancashire provides raw material (rPET) which can be off set against cost of Bus Shelter fabrication • Fabrication of sheet could be achieved locally • • Potential to establish localised manufacture of bus shelter Potential to establish localised manufacture of bus shelter (Queensbury based in Portsmouth) • Identified local demand could facilitate the introduction of a local rPET sheet extrusion process • Local Closed loop solutions achievable • Shelter fabrication could be carried out utilising services at HMP Garth to provided added value
Paper Products • 2009/10 Feasibility concluded non viability of establishing a new or re-commissioned paper mill in Lancashire Lancashire • Focus 2010/11 on identifying viable local market for Lancashire waste paper utilising local mill and manufacturing infrastructure • Libraries Project
Mattresses Mattress Deconstruction • New business start up in S.Ribble • Seeks to process 36,000 mattresses from muncipal mattresses from muncipal waste stream and a further 23,000 from commercial waste stream • Working with business to facilitate access to municipal waste stream and general business set-up.
Paving Slabs • Project developing paving slabs from 90% construction & demolition waste including fly ash waste material to provide an architectural paving slab • Partners: Marshalls, Jacksons (Preston), Liverpool University, Grundys & Veolia (Community Fund) LCC Landscape Architects onboard to trial the new paving slabs
Future Opportunities • Ramp–up phase for the Waste Recovery Parks at both Thornton and Farington • Starting to see the scope for future waste diversion • Focus on improving diversion from landfill of the waste • Focus on improving diversion from landfill of the waste streams from the facilities that currently have no viable end market at present eg Enval (Luton) eg cat food pouches, toothpaste tubes • Economic opportunities – business start ups, spin offs? • Education links through Universities and R&D • Closing the Loop
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